Genius Archer’s Streaming - Chapter 605

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The Genius Archer’s Streaming Season 3 Episode 75
27. Now I Understand (1)
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!? Three Spanish Soldiers just died!”
King Gul scanned the map in shock.
I thought Espana was settling into early scouting fortification.
But a reversal had occurred.
-Chills…
-Wait, they countered with an ambush??
-That was insane
-But why aren’t they retreating lol
-This is pretty big
“Yes! Deaths would be unexpected! Espana! Food is gone! Time is gone! Holes appear in their scouting!”
“It’s not just holes in scouting! Holes appear in strategy too! What do we do from here!? Nacho’s head must be pounding!”
Nacho’s judgment was defense for now.
Espana hastily began forming groups of five in that vicinity.
“Ah…! Espana? They’re forming groups of five?”
“Right. If Joseon suddenly pushes forward with force now, it’ll be hard to stop! The numbers are slightly insufficient! Out of desperation, they’re preventing the worst case scenario… but…”
Of course, Espana’s judgment was a very sound approach.
If they kept forming pairs, they’d be helpless when Joseon pushed forward with sudden force.
So they formed groups of five only in nearby areas.
It was nearly the correct judgment.
But the problem is the opponent knows that answer too.
“Meanwhile, Joseon! They’re not pushing forward with force at all right now!? Espana got completely baited!”
The ten-person ambush unit that had launched the surprise attack was now scattered, one person each.
It was completely opposite to Nacho’s expectations.
“The idea is to spread Soldiers widely through the gaps created as enemies suddenly cluster in groups of five, then infiltrate!”
Sure enough, Cookie’s routes were determined based on his bird’s-eye view from sending out scouts.
Ting!
[Infiltration Route]
Movement routes were transmitted to each of the ten individuals.
“Ah! Korea’s famous micro-control! Each individual Soldier just received different routes!? In an instant!”
“The enemy can’t respond to this!? Cookie completely sees through the enemy’s psychology!”
“As if saying ‘I see exactly how you’ll move,’ each route is incredibly sharp right now!”
Cookie’s judgment and each route were razor-sharp.
King Gul marveled.
“Ah! This really fits the expression ‘right in the palm of my hand’!?”
All ten scattered in different directions, beginning to infiltrate Espana’s territory.
“Once they infiltrate, do we start a defense tower rush?”
-So it’s a defense tower rush after all lol
-Another day build! Cookie!
-This is so damn annoying lol
“Yes. That’s likely the case. There’s not much we can do in the first era. But! Some of the soldiers who were infiltrating have been discovered!?”
All ten soldiers couldn’t slip in undetected, and that was never the plan anyway.
Rather, Nacho’s side needed to know that Joseon was infiltrating so they’d desperately waste money on strange things.
“Ah. How many do you think will make it in alive? This is basically like the Silmido Operation!”
“Just two getting through is enough!”
“What? One of them has encountered the enemy’s Assistant Commander!”
Among them was a soldier who had come face-to-face with the enemy’s Assistant Commander.
“Ah… This is too much of a coincidence!? The ones who met are Almond and Tres!”
It was a meeting between people who had exchanged words in interviews before the game started.
-The Devil of Attention vs The Devil of Interviews lololol
-Oh…lol
-Is that the guy who did that interview??
-This is hilarious
But almonds are at a disadvantage though ㅠ

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Could such a coincidence exist?
Of all people, the first Spanish Soldier I encounter is Tres.
‘This is way too disadvantageous.’
Almond felt troubled.
I wasn’t even holding a bow. In this barbaric era where I could only wield a club, there was nothing I could do against an Assistant Commander.
The Assistant Commander had been wielding a sword since the first era, crude as it was, and was even mounted on a horse.
“Ooooh?!”
Tres also recognized Almond and let out a strange cry.
“You… you bastard!?”
Shing!
He immediately drew his sword and charged forward on his horse.
“You… you damn bastard!!!”
Hyah!
-This is insane lololol
-Suddenly lol
-Ah lol that’s terrifying
What do I do? ㅠ
-Just die already
-Just draw aggro and die
Just from the way he charged, I could tell how accustomed he was to mounted combat.
‘If I dodge a few times, I buy time.’
Clop clop! Clop clop!
Almond continued running toward the path where he was charging.
Since I’ve already switched my strategy to buying time, I’m determined to draw aggro properly.
「The only variable in this operation is if the enemy notices and deploys both Assistant Commanders to pursue us.」
Tres was one of the risk factors Cookie had mentioned.
Because he’s mounted on horseback, even if we scatter across ten locations, he could sweep us all up if luck is on his side.
If Almond can pin him down, our success rate increases significantly.
Which means even dying while buying time here is a gain.
“You’re coming to die!?”
Tres’s blade flashed.
‘I don’t want to die, though.’
Still, Almond didn’t want to die.
He knew they’d placed a bounty on his head.
It wasn’t particularly damaging to him, but he didn’t want to see Tres collect that bounty by taking his head.
“Die!”
Whoooosh!
Almond tracked the path of his blade with his eyes until the very end.
And—
“Hup~!”
As he swung, I fell backward and let the blade slide past.
A dodge so smooth it looked like choreographed action from a movie.
It was almost comical to watch.
-Hup lmaooo
-Lol this guy
-Is he taunting him?? lol
“!?”
Whiiiine…!
Tres hastily stopped his horse and turned his head back.
But Almond was already sprinting desperately in another direction.
“You little rat bastard!?”
Tres drove his horse forward and charged again fiercely.
Running on foot was just infantry.
He could catch up in no time.
But then—
“Uaaaaaaah!”
—Boom!
Some bulky figure let out a roar and slammed his body into Tres?
Even Almond turned around in shock at the thunderous impact.
‘Spam?’
It was Spam, who I didn’t know was nearby.
He was struck by the horse and tumbled across the ground rolling.
But Tres’s horse had no choice but to stop momentarily.
According to the game system, the charge halts whenever you collide head-on with something.
“Wh-what…! What is this now!?”
“Almond, Ham! Go! That would be better!”
-Shudders
Ugh, spam accounts ㅠㅠ
-Truly the GOAT of the ham world…
-I’ll remember this!
It seemed Spam and Almond had taken similar routes.
Or perhaps Cookie had summoned Spam to act as bait instead?
I couldn’t say for certain, but thanks to this, I was able to charge ahead without slowing my pace even once.
“Damn it… you think you can keep up!?”
Behind me, I could hear Tres shouting in frustration.
“Get out of the way!”
However, after Spam, another Joseon Soldier joined in as well.
–Crash!
And even Assistant Commander Coffee came rushing in, leaving Tres no way to catch up.
Haha, that guy’s so annoying lol
Haha, that’s hilarious ㅋㅋㅋ
-Escape successful
By the time the commotion had faded into silence.
‘I can see it.’
Beyond the dark mist, Spain’s main base began to reveal its silhouette.
Someone waved their hand in front of it.
“Almond~!”
“You made it too?”
Waiting for me were Ratte and Danggeun.
It seemed these two had survived and arrived.
“So only the three of us made it?”
“Looks like it?”
I could wait longer to see if anyone else would arrive, but it seemed certain that only we had survived.
Cookie’s orders had come down.
[Infiltrate Enemy Territory]

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“Three survivors have made it to the Spanish base!”
“Yes! If just two of them enter and start building defense towers, Spain gets really frustrated, you know!? Because there are no archers! But three!? This is a critical emergency!”
The goal was to send two survivors, but three had arrived.
The analysts couldn’t help but be excited.
“What will Nacho do!? Will he build defense towers!? The Age 2 upgrade is right around the corner!”
“Rather than defense towers, he’ll try to block them with troops! If he builds defense towers now, it delays the Age 2 progression. Spain wants to benefit from a quick age upgrade, so he won’t like that!”
The best option for Spain was to recall some of their soldiers back to their main base to prepare for enemy infiltration.
“But! Blocking with troops won’t work!?”
All of Joseon’s soldiers began openly advancing toward the 12 o’clock position.
Boom boom boom…!
“Joseon soldiers are all pushing up into the Spanish base! This means they have to defend here!?”
Spain also had to build forces to stop Joseon’s main army.
But at a point where three soldiers were already eliminated, they couldn’t afford to pull more troops back to their base.
“There’s no room to recall troops to the base right now!”
“Exactly! Even if a few mosquitoes got into your bedroom, if a swarm of cockroaches is rushing at your front door, you can’t stop to fumigate the bedroom!”
-Yikes
-Cockroaches lol
-Ugh…
-Can you even see the mosquitoes bro lol
“So while blocking the front door, Spain will defend the bedroom with the existing defense system?”
“Yes. Spain will block those three with just workers and defense structures.”
“Workers!? Will that work? The forces that just entered… they’re not ordinary troops!?”
The ten-person ambush unit was essentially a special forces team composed only of aces.
The final three survivors from that unit had just infiltrated the Spanish base.
It was hard to imagine what kind of damage blocking them with just workers would cause.
That’s why Nacho made a different choice…
[Soldier Recruitment – 3%]
It was a clever move.
“Ah! Spain is consuming food to revive the three soldiers who just died? That’s better than building defense towers and using wood right now!?”
Among the resources needed for age upgrades, food was the most expendable.
Age 2 required a lot of gold and wood, but other resources weren’t needed as much.
So he chose the defense strategy that sacrificed the least to age upgrade speed.
“Well, it will take time for Spanish soldiers to be recruited, right?”
“That’s right. In the meantime! Three Joseon soldiers infiltrate the Spanish base! Going around the perimeter, slowly! Slowly!”
Waaaaaaa!
As Joseon’s forces entered the Spanish base, an enormous roar erupted from the cheering section.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Even the sound of drums rang out vibrantly.
“Now! The soldiers just entered the gold mine!? What do we do now! Joseon!”
“Is he really building it!? Can he actually do it!?”
King Gul shouted with wide eyes.
“Is he really building!? A defensive tower rush!?”
Without a clear order from the commander-in-chief, I couldn’t be certain yet.
He could have simply been harassing the workers.
[Wooden Defensive Tower – 1%]
The defensive tower began rising.
King Gul’s voice rose accordingly.
“Krraaaaahhh! Construction has begun! The first shovel has broken ground!”
-Is he a wyvern or something lol
-Is he the one going up?
-lolololol this is crazy
-The military really is all about the shovel
“Right now Joseon is strangling the enemy’s lifeline not with swords or guns! But with shovels! With digging!!!”
“Ahhh! So that’s why we do so much digging in the military!?”
“Ah! Now I understand! Commander! That’s why you made me dig so much! To strangle the enemy’s lifeline! Ahhhhh!”
-lololololololololol this is insane
-Commander lololololol
-This guy lolol
-Oh, the old commander…!
-Isn’t his own breath running out?
The audience in the stands, moved by King Gul’s words, screamed even louder.
“Waaaahhhhh!”
“Great! People! Nation!!”
Boom boom! Boom! Boom boom!
The sound of drums and cheers echoed through the venue.
“Ahhh! From Spain’s perspective, this must be absolutely nerve-wracking! A Joseon defensive tower rising in their own base! Imagine hearing that sound! They’re going to lose their minds!?”
The venue was a cauldron of excitement and fervor.
“Could this actually end the game!? King Gul!?”
“Spain will eventually stop it! But in the process, they’ll take massive worker casualties! Just that alone is a huge headache for Spain!”
[Wooden Defensive Tower – 62%]
The defensive tower had risen past the halfway point.
[Soldier Recruitment Complete]
Spain had finally revived all three fallen soldiers.
All three of them began rushing toward Joseon’s defensive tower.
They were trying to stop its completion.
“Now! This is the critical moment! How quickly Spain can stop it will determine everything! The game’s flow will change right here!”
It was the moment where both teams’ fates would diverge.

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